Candy and wine make me feel so fine
The Shelbyville, Tennessee, Times Gazette reports that Lynchburg Cakes and Candies is teaming up with Shelbyville winery Tri-Star Vineyards to produce Tennessee Wine Drops:
Lynchburg Cakes and Candies has already had great success with its Whiskey Cakes, which went into high demand after they were featured on the Food Network and “The View” on several occasions. Billy Thomas, who formed the cake company in his back yard, has been doing a booming business for the past two years.
Thomas already makes Whiskey Drops and Whiskey Ball.
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The wine goes in the center of the chocolate candy, which is also full of pecans. The candies come in two flavors, Cherry and Chancellor, based on two of Tri-Star’s 18 wine varieties. Tri-Star raises is own grapes and muscadines and buys fruits for its other fruit wines.
Tri-Star is one of Tennessee’s smallest wineris and sells about 5,000 to 6,000 bottles a year, according to the article, made of grapes from the winery’s five acre vineyard.
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